Releases – September 2021

The first album from The Tirith. Tales From The Tower is a rare album of real songs performed, interpreted and recorded in the modern progressive idiom, and features the songs of Tim Cox and Richard Cory. Most of the songs on this album are from the time of the first incarnation of The Tirith, they are the classic Tirith songs of our youth. Those songs have been taken, rearranged in some cases, lyrics have been supplemented, and the songs have been reinterpreted and presented ...

After a lengthy break from release activity, Welsh-borne Progressive Heavy Metal act HUNTED returns stronger than ever with their sophomore fulllength effort “Deliver Us”.Now operating as a quartet consisting of arch-wailer Chris G, axeman Steve Barberini along with the habile rhythm section of bassist Jon Letson and drummer Matt “Animal” Thomas, the band has spent their time wisely; improving upon their compositional and instrumental skills to offer us this mercurial blend of Heavy Metal’s past, present and future. Painstakingly refined ...

First LP from French metallers with a deadly Maiden-on-Mercyful Fate twist! Nearly a decade in the making, France’s Tentation emerge with their first full-length album, Le Berceau Des Dieux, a throwback to the glory days of 1980s metal — with vocals sung entirely in French! Tentation was formed in 2012 in Torreilles, a small village in the south of France. Visitors are immediately reminded of Torreilles’s history when passing through its streets — many of the buildings in its center have maintained a medieval ...

First LP from French metallers with a deadly Maiden-on-Mercyful Fate twist! Nearly a decade in the making, France’s Tentation emerge with their first full-length album, Le Berceau Des Dieux, a throwback to the glory days of 1980s metal — with vocals sung entirely in French!Tentation was formed in 2012 in Torreilles, a small village in the south of France. Visitors are immediately reminded of Torreilles’s history when passing through its streets — many of the buildings in its center have maintained a medieval ...

DAEMONICUS burst into the extreme and death metal scene in 2006, with several demo EPs and two highly acclaimed full length records to date, the four- piece also took the stages by storm and toured with acts such as Christ Agony and Groteskh. Several line- up changes may have hit the band hard, but did not stop founding members PO Wester and Jörgen Persson to continously writing song material. With a new and strong line- up backed by bassist Martin Pudas and David ...

After our first well acclaimed EP “Reveries” and the stand-alone single “Apathetic Lacrymae” ,“Ascension” is our first full length album as Ghostheart Nebula.This new chapter, unraveling in a trail of empathy and introspection, contains the main stylistic andemotive nuances of our music.The album has been recorded at StreetRec Studio (Como, Italy), while mixing and mastering havebeen done by Øystein G. Brun (Borknagar) at Crosound Studio (Bergen, Norway).On “Ascension” we had the pleasure of having different featurings adding extra contents and ...

On the occasion of the twentieth discographic anniversary of Morgan Lacroix and Terry Horn’s band, September 24th will see the release of “Nothing but the best” GREATEST HITS , with the addition of previously unreleased tracks like “Jeanne D’Arc” and “Spiritual leadin’” and of three new songs which will be part of the new full length, scheduled for the end of 2022.The fist 100 copies of the album will come along with a celebratory poster (size 50×70).Mandragora scream are undoubtedly one of ...

DARK REDEEMER were born in the summer of 2018 out of the ashes of Aleph, a band devoted to an obscure, progressive death metal band that released four albums between 2006 and 2018. In spite of the great response, both by the fans and the press (Aleph were the Metal Hammer new Italian band of the year in 2006), and their live performances (with standings like Dismember, Necrodeath, Vision Divine and more), the four deathsters decided it was time to overturn their soundscape: ...

Hard times, make hard music! ABUSE RITUAL prove that Metal, Grindcore and Hardcore fit together perfectly if you only want to! During the first difficult months of this unspeakable pandemic, ABUSE RITUAL formed this Band to present their idea of Metal, Punk and Hardcore. ABUSE RITUAL is not a”New Jack” Band but old warriors who played in such respected bands as ALL OUT WAR, MERAUDER, BURN THE WEAK and many other bands…No song is like the next, Doom, Thrash or Death Metal combine with ...

After 6 years of discographic and scenic silence, Kehlvin is back with HOLISTIC DREAMS, an album that continues to dig this unique and tortuous groove which has made the whole reputation of the band. If post-metal accents continue to protrude in the music, it is rather this hardcore metal with noise and progressive influences that continues to develop through these 7 surprising & fascinating compositions. The band oscillates between reinstated violence, pure explosion of rage and complex passages where the underneath melodies intermingle to ...

After 6 years of discographic and scenic silence, Kehlvin is back with HOLISTIC DREAMS, an album that continues to dig this unique and tortuous groove which has made the whole reputation of the band. If post-metal accents continue to protrude in the music, it is rather this hardcore metal with noise and progressive influences that continues to develop through these 7 surprising & fascinating compositions. The band oscillates between reinstated violence, pure explosion of rage and complex passages where the underneath melodies intermingle to ...

Veilburner are back with a new album full of twisted, brain‐warping, consciousness‐altering death/black metal. Many thought they’d achieved their pinnacle with their previous full length ‘A Sire to the Ghouls of Lunacy’ but this one, while continuing where it left off, expands upon the theme of that one in ways never imagined. This is more of the same unhinged, dissonant and downright terrifying music delivered with even more conviction and extremity. Their creative genius is inexhaustible as the band once again elaborates on the ...

Death metal band Fetid Zombie is the brainchild of the legendary artist Mark Riddick. An unstoppable force in the underground, Riddick has put out dozens of releases, mostly splits with bands from around the world, in addition to releasing six full length albums. It’s been five years since the release of his last full length ‘Epicedia’ which came out on the same label, and now Riddick has once again teamed up with some extremely talented musicians to fulfill his vision of dark and atmospheric ...

As the name suggests, 71TonMan are purveyors of earth‐shatteringly heavy music and their brand of doom/sludge metal furthermore is acerbic and crust‐scraping. Bands in this style rarely have this scathing, face‐melting sound and it’s strangely addictive, particularly the combination of huge, stomping riffs and absolutely vile vocals delivered in an almost grindcore manner. The contrast against the backdrop of collapsing buildings and the ensuing chaos and all‐round mayhem is gratifying despite this being an EP, a precursor for something even greater to come. We ...

Eccentric Norwegian death metal band Diskord have made quite a reputation for themselves over the years for playing some twisted, unhinged death metal that takes the best elements of old school death metal, dissonant death metal, technical death metal, even progressive and jazz music, and then some. Their death metal is wonderfully concocted, full of unpredictable twists and turns, while retaining ample causticity and drive throughout. There’s just so much happening at all times, it’s both mind-boggling and exhilarating as one attempts to decipher ...